Hello all. It is 7:30 in the morning (East coast time), and I'm okay with it. I went to bed last night at 11:30 PM. Normally, I would have gone to bed an hour ago. It feels weird to be normal. So yeah, hi! It's been a while. I don't remember the last time one of us wrote a blog. We have been writing excessively lately. Some of it rules, some of it blows. You won't hear the shitty stuff though. Promise. I want a new record already. Our newer songs rule balls. We are gonna start to play them live very soon. We would have had our last show of the year last night but unfortunately, the snow killed that. We finished 09 off strong though. Thank you to every single person who came out to a show this year, bought Take Control, or gave us a chance. We met some GREAT friends this year in bands that we grew up listening to or who just started fresh. We look forward to another great year with you all. We are planning big things for 2010. We are booking some warm up shows in January. Dunno when they are yet though. We are playing School of Rock (We consider that a second home now) on 2/5/10 with Scary Kids Scaring Kids and The Sleeping. Both awesome bands. We are opening the show, so get there early. I am watching people clean the snow off their cars. I love the snow but it's such an inconvenience. What time do people normally go out to eat or something? I wouldn't know as my first meal of the day is usually at 4:30 in the afternoon. Well yeah, that's the update for now. I can't reveal details on what are planning yet but I promise you it's going to be awesome. We spoke about it yesterday at practice. It involves donkeys. I'm gonna go play Star Fox. Peace.

Jon

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yo. jonny over here. whats good everyone? its been a while since we have updated. we really suck with the whole updating thing but we promise we arent doing nothing. we actually have been playing a lot of shows as well as writing some sweet new songs. we have been demoing and what not too. we have some major shows coming up, they are listed on our page as always. we will have some new video diaries up soon. we got a new  camera so we need to use it to make footage. we lost our old footage (hence why there were no videos for a while). i love pancakes, and they love me. we have decided we are going to update at least once a week from now on. we are cracking down for ya! hope you have enjoyed the new song we have been playing. its on the pop rock side but i love it. for everyone who loves heavy stuff...just wait. its coming. we have some sweet new heavy songs as well. its sweet. im gonna go now. i just wanted to say hey. we are gonna update again on thursday with some sweet news. until then, stay fresh, stay true. peanut butter.

jon

yo. what up in ave..ville?mike and jon here. we just dyed our hair. we look stupid. its okay though, we still think we are sexy. we are sitting here waiting for jeremy and ankush (our dope new friend from home) to bring us back mcdonalds. we worked on some of the new record today. it was rad. almost as rad as sure deodorant. but yeah. we havent updated in a while. we are making a new video diary soon though. we promise. kind of. we are booking more shows as well as doing a lot of demoing. thats all for now. we will give you a nice update very soon. things are going well in our camp. camp avenida. camp meadow wood. camp morning wood. peace

J+M

Just want to let everyone know that some of our shows have changed; some cancelled and new ones added.  And more will continue to be added to fill up the rest of the year, so be sure to keep your eyes on our Upcoming Shows section for all the opportunities to see us, and all the details on each show.  Quick rundown of the following weeks...

Hey there people.  We just signed up for a Battle of the Bands to win a spot on this fall's Pactour with Saosin!  All you have to do to help us out is click the link below or go to http://battleofthebands.pacsun.com/contest.php%3Fsid=166%26aid=31381%26mid=25312%26mtype=1 and vote for us to play at Sayreville.  You're allowed 1 vote a day, but you can vote as many days you want.  If everyone could just take 30 seconds out of your day each day to vote for us it will go a long way.  Thank you for all the support you've all given us so far and will hopefully continue to give us.

Twat! sorry. i had to. anyways. we now have an Avenida twitter. We also, in case you are blind and haven't noticed...our own twitters!
here is our link.

Twitter.com/AvenidaRock


you can access the link for our personal twitters at the top of our myspace page.

thanks.

lmnop

What's up everyone? Hope everyone is doing well. We are doing great. We have some awesome things lined up. First off, Take Control is doing really well. Thank you to everyone who bought a copy. Spread that shit around please. We just played some fucking kick ass shows such as Warped Tour in Oceanport, NJ as well as School of Rock with Van Atta High. Everyone check out Van Atta High because they are the new big band from Jersey. Thank you to everyone who has been coming out to all the shows. We have an in store Hot Topic acoustic set this Thursday in our hometown (Livingston, NJ) to support Take Control. Come out and hang out with us. We are friendly people. We have been writing new material in between shows. It's coming out really well. Hopefully sooner than later we can play a few new songs live. Also, we have some bigger shows lined up for the fall. We are still booking but two that stand out are at School of Rock and Starland Ballroom. Starland Ballroom is a Halloween show on Nov. 1st with Powerman 5000. We are dressing up for this show so if anyone has any ideas, throw them our way. The other is on October 10th at School of Rock with Someone Say Something. That show is really special for a few reasons. One being that we can finally play a nice show with the other good band from our town. We have been trying to do this for a while. They rule. Check them out here. Also, it's my birthday that day which makes the day that much better. So whoever wants to come out and celebrate my birthday, come to the show and then whatever after party we decide to throw. We are currently working out ideas for new merch too. A lot of shit is going on in our camp. Stay tuned for another video diary this week. We are trying to do them weekly but we have been so busy so we might slack once in a while. I'm addicted to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. You will hear from us again very soon.

Jon

Hey everyone. Here is how you can find out our set time at warped this year. You can follow our twitters. They are located on the top of our page now. You can also send us a message with your phone number. We know that sounds tacky but we are sending out a mass text with our set time as soon as we find out what it is. Also, there will be flyers around the entrances of the venue and inside the venue with our set time as well. So come out to warped and have a good time with us. We have a red tent this year. It will be near the Ernie Ball Stage. That is the stage we are on this year. See you there!

Hello people of the electronic world.  I'm here to basically say one thing.  TAKE CONTROL IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!!!  Woot woot.  We have physical copies with us so come out to our shows to purchase one or just find one of us.  They're already selling like hot cakes filled with crack.  But wait, there's more!  The record is also currently available for online purchase at Amazon, Napster, Lala, and Shockhound and will shortly be up on iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, and IMVU.  Go and check that shit out and help spread the word about our new album.  We've got A LOT of new shit planned that you will see in the coming days.  Look forward to it because we're completely ecstatic about everything that's going on.

Also, just to remind everyone, we've got a show at the Stone Pony coming up on June 14th.  This is essentially like a CD release show since it's the first one where we'll have them.  So everyone should come and celebrate with us.  BEACH PARTY!!!!  We're also then playing acoustically at the Hot Topic in the Garden State Plaza on the 17th.  That's a free show so come and hang with us.

That's about it for now.  And i emphasize FOR NOW.  We look forward to seeing you all real soon.  TAKE CONTROL!!



JerBer